Zack Snyder To Direct Zombie Action Film ‘Army Of The Dead’ for Netflix

While fans still carry the torch for the Snyder Cut of Justice League to see the light of day, we now know what Zack Snyder’s next project will be.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Snyder’s next feature film will be the zombie horror thriller, Army of the Dead. The film already has a screenplay from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword scribe, Joby Harold, based off a story idea by Snyder.

The adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.

Netflix, which is taking the project over from Warner Bros, is going full steam ahead with Snyder’s new film. The movie will commence shooting this summer with a sizable budget that could hit the $90 million range, insiders predict. Snyder is quoted in the article “There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one.”

The film is a return to Snyder’s roots, having directed the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead. It also reunites him with Scott Stuber, Netflix’s movie head, and the executive who originally gave Snyder his big-screen shot on DOTD. Snyder says that this new project is one he is proud to call truly his own:

“I love to honor canon and the works of art,” he says of his adaptations, “but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre. It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freakshow that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”

Snyder says he’s been energized by the prospect of making this particular story.

Finally, Snyder detailed the one thing he missed the most: actually operating a camera and “being in the trenches.”

“When the movie gets super big, you get pushed away from the camera,” he notes. “And in the last few years I’ve had a reconnection with photography. This movie will be a chance to get the camera in hand.”

Skyler has been writing about film for 5 years now. His strengths and knowledge are in the Disney Company and its enormous library of past, present, and future film content. His work can also be found over on TheDisInsider.com and ThatHashtagShow.com Skyler is a currently enrolled at LA Film School taking Entertainment Business.

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